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Show HN: A simple game I made where you guess country populations

by JCordeiro on 11/26/13, 4:32 PM with 8 comments

  • by hyperpape on 11/26/13, 7:07 PM

    Cool game. I also had a string of very easy questions early on that almost made me leave the page, so I think calibrating the difficulty is important. Maybe even start presenting harder or easier questions based on how the user has been performing.
  • by rollo_tommasi on 11/26/13, 6:40 PM

    One suggestion: Adjust the game so that the player is only presented with countries that have populations within a certain distance of each other. Right now I'm getting a lot of "Marshall Islands vs Pakistan" type questions.
  • by 11thEarlOfMar on 11/26/13, 9:30 PM

    Might be fun to have a ranking for players as well to see how they did vs. everyone else. Like the old arcade video games did.
  • by rbosinger on 11/26/13, 9:24 PM

    I am awful at this. I have always been surprised and excited by population numbers though so I had fun. Thanks!